Curriculum

Learning!

At Mentor Preschool, our age-based curriculum uses ten learning approaches: Growing, Thriving, Expressing, Caring, Creating, Building, Reasoning, Investigating, Belonging, and Playing to support whole-child development with calm routines, hands-on activities, and strong connections.

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Bunnies

18 - 30 Months

Cubs

2 - 3.5 Years

Pandas

3 - 4 Years

Hawks

3.5 - 4.5 Years

Lions

4 - 5 Years

We guide children toward independence through daily routines that build confidence, responsibility, and self-care skills. Children learn handwashing, dressing, toileting readiness, potty training, cleaning up, and making simple choices. These milestones strengthen executive function, body awareness, and emotional security. By practicing independence in a supportive environment, children develop pride in their abilities and the resilience needed to navigate new challenges, building self-trust each day.

We believe the quickest way to a child's heart, mind, and soul is through their stomach. Our culinary approach makes meals a meaningful part of early learning, comfort, and connection. Children benefit from nutritious food, hydration, sensory experiences, and calm daily rhythms that support focus and regulation. These positive experiences strengthen wellness, mood, attention, and readiness to learn, helping children thrive socially, emotionally, and academically each day.

EXPRESSING 

We build strong communication skills through conversation, storytelling, reading, writing readiness, and meaningful social interaction. Children are encouraged to express ideas, ask questions, listen carefully, and grow their vocabulary through daily engagement. Print-rich classrooms support early literacy, while drawing, mark-making, and phonemic awareness prepare children for writing. Our language-rich environment helps children connect with global cultures and form friendships that reach far beyond our classroom.

Our environment teaches empathy, cooperation, patience, and self-control through guided relationships and daily practice. Children learn to recognize feelings, solve conflicts, share space, and respond kindly to others. Teachers model respectful communication and emotional regulation throughout the day. These early social skills build secure peer connections and healthy behavior patterns, helping children grow into thoughtful community members who understand compassion, responsibility, and mutual respect.

We view creativity as essential to healthy development and joyful learning. Children engage in music, movement, art, illustration, dramatic play, and open-ended expression that strengthen imagination, confidence, and problem-solving. Process is valued over perfection, allowing freedom to explore materials, sounds, stories, and ideas. Creative experiences also support language growth, emotional expression, and flexible thinking while helping children understand themselves and the world around them.

We help children learn by constructing, designing, and experimenting with real materials and open-ended tools. Blocks, manipulatives, recycled objects, sensory materials, and collaborative projects encourage planning, persistence, and spatial reasoning. Children test ideas, revise structures, and discover how things work through hands-on exploration. Building experiences strengthen fine motor coordination, teamwork, and confidence while teaching that mistakes are valuable steps in the learning process.

We develop early mathematical thinking through counting, sorting, comparing, measuring, sequencing, and pattern recognition. Children encounter reasoning naturally through games, routines, cooking, and classroom materials. Teachers guide children to notice relationships, predict outcomes, and explain their thinking. These experiences build logic, memory, and problem-solving skills, preparing children for academic success and helping them see math as a practical and meaningful part of daily life.

INVESTIGATING

Our learning environment invites observation, testing, questioning, and discovery as part of daily experience. Children explore nature, materials, movement, cause and effect, and everyday phenomena using their senses and developing minds. Teachers encourage predictions, experimentation, and reflection rather than simply giving answers. This inquiry-based approach builds confidence, language, and critical thinking. Children learn that asking questions is valuable and that knowledge grows through exploration, persistence, and careful attention.

Our classroom culture helps children feel seen, valued, and connected to the people and world around them. Shared traditions, multicultural learning, community relationships, and environmental awareness teach children that they are part of something larger than themselves. Daily experiences foster respect for differences, empathy, and mutual care. Belonging strengthens identity, confidence, and social responsibility while helping children develop pride in their family, culture, and community.

Our program recognizes play as the primary language of early childhood learning. Through imaginative, exploratory, and social play, children practice decision-making, communication, cooperation, and emotional regulation. Play allows children to test ideas, rehearse life experiences, and build resilience in joyful ways. Our teachers create environments that invite discovery while supporting your child’s curiosity, movement, and wonder throughout their learning journey.

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